G.s.gabriel Quotes

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Your eyes smile peace.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles... they don't have one that says 'oops.

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

I'm not on a diet. And it's funny cause people go 'Well, then why do you drink diet soda?' So I can eat regular cake.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Metaphysics is a science.

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

This soup tastes like windows

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.